Dongsu Park
Dongsu, senior software engineer of AzCore Linux team in Microsoft, originally from South Korea, now lives in Berlin. He maintains Flatcar Container Linux, an image-based Linux distro optimized for containers, including tracking security issues to get them fixed in regular releases. His recent focus includes Rust-based projects like ue-rs, a reimplementation of the update engine in Flatcar in Rust.
Session
Azure-init is a fresh open source reference implementation for provisioning Linux virtual machines in Azure. In contrast to existing systems like cloud-init, azure-init aims to be minimal, focusing on basic instance initialization from Azure metadata. Azure-init also consists of a flexible structure to enable its use by other provisioning agents like Fedora CoreOS’ Afterburn. Finally, azure-init aims to be fast and secure, being written in Rust. In this talk we will review the motivations for the creation of azure-init, the current status of the project, and vision for its future development.